The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris) is the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart, first published in 1873. It is a novel of

Zola and the art of fiction -- Before the Rougon-Macquart -- The fat and the thin: The belly of Paris -- 'A work of truth': L'assommoir -- The man-eater: Nana -

"THE FAT AND THE THIN," or, to use the French title, "Le Ventre de Paris," is a story of life in and around those vast Central Markets which form a distinctive

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Fat and the Thin’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Emile Zola’. Having established